Jogos digitais no ambiente escolar

Abstract

The present work had the general objective to analyze in the literature the use of digital games in physical education classes. And as specific objectives: Understand the game as content of physical education and its possibilities; understand the history and evolution of games; analyze games and their ratings; identify the digital games presented in the literature aimed at school physical education classes; and see how Just Dance can help students learn in PE classes. The interest about the theme arose from experiences in the discipline of methodology of teaching games, from the Physical Education Degree course at UFRPE, which aims to discuss the teaching of games and its consequences. The research has a qualitative approach and performs a literature review in Scielo. It was possible to verify that few works were published with the theme of digital games, during the analysis of the texts, we identified that the authors present the digital games as a possibility not only in the physical education class, but also in other subjects. It is concluded that digital games are a pedagogical tool for school physical education classes.